The Sun. — London, England, 1818-04-11 00:00:00

alzalust the measure, the amendment n-as put and carried isit!mut a division. 'l'he Biil is consequently lost. EMPLOYMENT OF THE POOR. Alderman WOOD said, on rating to ask leave to bring in the Bill of which he had given notice, he wished merely to state, that its object was to contribute to afford employment to the poor, particularly in Ireland. He knew persons who had sent considerable sums to Ireland for this purpose, hut who were alarmed at the iiiellicacy of the existio:: Acts.whiell related to the security of their capital so employed in that part of the kingdom It was too well known that in Ireland there were millions of people unemployed; and lite hail no tfcsitation to say. that the greatest advantage would be de rived if persons were ail - Owed to embark a certain capital to atfurd them employment, and he protected by the Legislature against being liable for ally tiling more than the capital so embarked. He Slould now only move, " That leave he given to bring in a Bill to promote the Employment of the Poor in the Fisheries, 'crade, and Manufactures of England and Ire land, by regulating and encouraging partnerships." The SPEAKER suggested, !hat. it would be necessary for the Him. Gentleman to alter the wording of his motion, by making it for the appointment of a Committee of the whole 'House, to consider of the means of employing the poor, Sze.— The motion thus altered being put, Mr. GRENFELL said he did not mean to oppose the mo tion of his Hon. Friend, which notwithstanding svemrd Cs Inost extraordinary one; for thus promoting the employintiot of the poor was neither more not less than doing away with all the existing laws for the protection of trade and commerce, amid pattieularly with that of the 6th Geo. I. for preventing the formation of Joint Stock Companies. If he understood the Bill at all, it was to encourage such Companies, by indivi duals subscribing a certain sum, and releasing themselves from all responsibility that should exceed the sum they stb- scribed. Stich a measure would strike at . the root of the whole commercial system of this country. He knew that in many parts of the Continent such a system was adopted, but it was so contrary to the system on which this country has acted, that he should feel it his duty to oppose the proposi tion in every stage. Alderman WOOD thought his Hon. Friend had certainly mistaken the nature of the measnre. It was not a Bill that the great capitalists of this country ought to be alarmed at; and the House could determine whether it should go with any amendments that he proposed. Mr. GRENFELL replied, tlrat if its object was only to amend the existing laws of Ireland, he should not give it op position ; but would it nut get to the e.stent of allowing manu facturers and traders in this country to deposit any suns they pleased, being liable only for What they advanced ? Sir JOHN NEWPORT wished the question to he enter- tained, without expressing at the present moment any de cided opinion on its merits. From his own knowledge, he was satified that such companies had proved very beneficial to Ireland, in encouraging the employment of capital. After a few words from Mr. Finlay and Mr. 1). Gilbert, 'the motion for the House resolving itelf into a Committee for considering the means of promoting trade, manufactures, and tommerce,by the encouragement of partnerships,was carried, and appointed •for Monday next. DARTMOOR PRISON. - Mr. Alderman WOOD moved that instructions be given to the Committee to intluire whether Dartmoor Prison was fit for the reception of Convicts, with power to sena for persons, .papers, and records,—Agceed tu. ROYAL BURGHS OF SCOTLAND. The LORD ADVOCATE moved for lease to bring in a Bill to regulate the Royal Burghs of Scotland. There were already two laws upon the subject, waking them liable to the interference of the Exchequer, but they were obsolete. His measure was, that the Magistrates should submit their ac counts to the view of the Burgesses, and tho,,upon the de position of five of the Burgesses, the Magistrates should ac count for the expenditure. Lord A. HAMILTON was glad to find that the grievances which had been complained of year after year were likely to he remedied. Scotland for thirty years had been requesting this boon of the House, but the present measure was only a partial improvement. He much regretted that laws so bene ficial had been permitted to become obsolete. He wished to linow if the present Bill was the work of the Lord Advocate alone, or whether it was brought in under the sanction of the Scotch Judges. The LOAD ADVOCATE and Lord A. HAMILTON mu tually explained ; the former observed that he alone was re stionsible•for the Bill, and that the delay in bringing it before the H (114 Se had been unavoidable. Sir J. NEWPORT said, that by the laws of Ireland no law in the Statute Book could be considered as abrogated but by an Act of the Legislature, and he was surprised that such should he the doctrine of the La‘, The LORD ADVOCATE, in further explanation, said, that by the established Law of Scotland, Statutes which were nut acted upon were considered by the Lords of Session in complet C abs yance. Mr. FINLAY said, be congratulated the H ouse on the mo tion of the Noble Lord. But when he learnt that the mode of redress was proposed to be effected by lodging the returns to Exchequer, it amounted tu no remedy at all. The Bill was in effect a dead letter. The great point was to give publicity to the accounts. LORD ADVOCATE—" I slid so." Mr. EINLAY—" I wish the publicity to be given in the Burghs where - the accounts are understood, instead of being in the Exchequer. If a Scotchnian is told ht is to g'(') to law upon such , :ccasions as this, he will consider the re- medy worse than the disease." LORD ADVOCATE-•` stated, and it is certainly no -fault of mine if I have been misapprehended, that not only did I wish the accounts to be reported to the Lxtbequer, but also to lay open fur the inspection of the Burgesses of the place." Leave Was now toured and given to bring in n Bill to regu late the Expenditure of the Revenue o; the Royal Bui•ghs of Scotland; soon after which a Bill was accordingly brought in by the Lord Advocate, which was then read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time this day three weckir. Upon the motion of Mr. Lughington, the Report of the • National Vaccine Establishment was ordered. TRANSUBSTANTIATION. General THORNTON rose for the purpose of postponing his motion with respect to the repeal of the Acts relating to Transubstantiation till the 28th instant. He assured the House that his motion would not affect the oaths of supre macy and abjuratiatt.—Adjourned at eleven o'clock, till Monday. We received this morning the Paris Papers of Tuesday and Wednesday last. On Monday, in the Chamber of Peers, a Projet was communicated by the Ministers for the organization of the Bank of France, the discussion of which was appointed for Thursday. In the Chamber of Deputies on Mon day, a Report was made from the Committee on the Budget respecting tire petitions referred to it. Another Report from the same Committee was made on Tuesday. "The Reporters of the Corn ►nittees were then heard at considerable length, and the deliberatior , con►nte►rccd upon the respec tive Articles. The first Article only of the Pro jet was adopted, when the Chamber adjourned till WVed►►esday. These Journals contain another days' proceedings of the Trial at Alhi, but affording no t;►ing material.--The loAowing are Extract.; : " PARts, APRIL 7.—The Duke of Wellington had a conference yesterday with the Duke de Richelieu, the Austrian, Russian, English, and Prussian Ministers Plenipotentiary, and the Baron Mounieri President of the Mixed Commission for the Liquidation of Foreign Claims. " The Countess of ciothland (Queen of S.ve den) had yesterday a private audience of his Ma jesty. " It is supposed Shat the present Session of the Chambers will close by the end of this month. " The Gazette de Florence, of the 24th ult. an nounces officially, by a letter from the Sat di Irian Consul at Leghorn, that the Dey of Al giers shied of the plague on the Ist of March. His successor, Coggia-Caralli, formerly his Minister, was prodaiMed the same day amidst salvos of artillery. He has assumed the name of Ibrahim Paella. The next day all the foreign Consuls were presented to the new D. y, to tender hint the customary presents.-- Ibrahim Paella commenced I►is Government by an act. of justice : ire ordered the young Christian women and Jewesses, whom his predecessor had confined in the Seraglio, to be set at liberty. " APRIL B.—The Duke of Wellington and the Foreign Ministers were presented ye s terday in the accustomed form to the King. " A new Ordonnance of Police was issued yes terday. regulating the price of bread in Paris. From this day the loaf of four pounds of the first quality is to be sold at 80 cents (Bd.) ; and a similar loaf of the second (polity at 55 cents (51d.) " A great commercial house at Havre has failed for several millions of francs. " FIVE PER CENTS. " Monday f. c. " Tuesda-y . Cf; f. 55 c. "DEFERRED STOCK. " Monday .. 79 f. 40c. " Tuesday • • 79 f. The chief subject in the House of Commons yesterday related to the renewal of hostilities in India, when Mr. CANNING, in answer to a ques tion from Mr. HowonTn, stated, that though the late accounts from India were not official, yet that he had reason to believe thatlriertre au: thentic. Lord ,ARCHIBALD HAMILTON, who had lately come forward with a terrific complaint of a breach of privilege, seems to have illustrated the fable of the Mountain in Lob , mr. • Lonll PALM ERsToN.---This day, at 12 o'clock, in answer to the enqu:ries made after the state of his Lordship's health, it was announced that no further Bulletin would he issued, " as Lord PAL MERSTON was quite recovered." We have long beeri of opinion that PEACE with AMERICA has not been placed on ibirable foun dation. We woe the first to notice the artful policy and ambitions views of the American Go vernment, on the very day when the PRESIDENT'S Speech arrived- in town,_ as inartted in that Speech, from a - tuere cursory consideration of its contents ; hut we had the pleasure 4o find that Our opinions weresconfirmed by the itentiments of a Gentleman of high authority and extensiveexpe iience in American concerns, which afterwards appeared in our Paper, whose name we are not permitted to mention, and whose future favours we hope to receive. It was astonishing to us at the time that none of the Journals who support our Government should have beheld the Pas siDENT's Speech in the same point of view as we did, nor have they since ; but, on the contrary, they have uniformly expressed their approbation of the moderate.spirit by which, in their opinion, it was characterized, and did not appear to dis cern. any of those seeds of ambition which, we doubt not, will in due time grow into open hosti lities. The following paragraph, which we have extracted from a Morning Paper, will fully jus tify the view of things which we at first took, and which subsequent events have abundantly con firmed. As to the Opposition Writers, who were silent on the subject, we cannot give them mote credit for -discernment, with respect to the mis chievous features of the Pat:sine:ifs Speech, than their loyal Opponents ; for, if they had discerned those features, they would, no doubt, have dis torted them into the most forbidding deformity, and, to use the memorable phrase of The Alorning Chronicle, have " prognosticated predictions " of the most gloomy and alarming nature : " The last Letters and Papers from Quebec state, that considerable astonishment was excited in Canada, at the military preparations in the ueiBhbourhood, under the three- Lion of the Government of the United States. ft is said from Montreal, that fortifications are building almost at their doors, and particularly Rouse Point is noticed, where the works are nearly complete. Such is the exertion made by the Republic to render its possessions in that quarter formidable, that during the last year the northern division performed 13,654 days' moth, including the public roads which lead into the heart of the Canadas, and by which means it is assumed that the Americans intend to - annoy the Cana dians."—(New Times.) FrtENcn Cor.otitEs.—lt is sad, but we do not be lieve the report to be true, that the French Govet n went have conceded to the United States a permis sion for A kIERICANVESSELS to trade with the French West India Colonies. Neitherdo we credit the report that the Court of Madrid has granted the same indulgence to American Vessels to trade with the Spanish Colonies. We consider these rumours as a ruse de guerre, to qualify in some degree the farther concessions which, it is under stood, are about to be mAde by his Majesty's nisters in favour of the Americans, in order to lessen the obloquy which will attach to such im provident measures. That these sacrifices are to be made does not surprise us, from the senti ments avowed by some of the present Cabinet respecting the Navigation and Colonial System, who, we are informed, would not be indisposed to abandon it altogether, adopting the modern system, Which has been so long and so clamor ously advocated by the writers in the Edinburgh Review and the other Disciples of that School. We, however, trust, that the Shipping and Mer cantile Interests will be on the alert, and by their timely interference endeavour to avert the evils which will flow from such an abandon ment of the principles and policy of our ances tots, on which is founded the Naval Power and Ulory of the Country. The Norwich Mercury accuses The Courier of having borrowed the last week's Postscript of that paper, and used it in " a leading article" of its own, as if it bad originated with itself.—We are sorry to see some of the Provincial Journals do the same by The Sun, taking our articles as spe culations of their own without acknowledgment. This is not only an illiberal practice on the part of those Journals, but unjust also, as we always acknowledged the source whence we derived any articles which we had taken front them. TIIAIBER DUTIES.-In the Table of Duties of Customs now before Parliamen,t, ti►ete does not appear to be any exemption from duty of Timber from British North America until 1820 ; and therefore a. clause to that effect should be intro duced, to avoid any doubts in that respect, ac cording to the existing Act. COAL DuTtes.—Neither is there any clause of exemption from the Coast Duties on Coals—for Coals carried within the Humber, or other large arms of the Sea, which, until of late, were al ways considered Inland Navigations Thursday evening her MAJESTY bad a select party ; and yesterday, accompanied by the Prin cess AUGUSTA, returned to Windsor. A Cabinet Council was yesterday held at the Foreign Office at two o'clock, and sat till near four o'clock. Yesterday morning Mr. ROSE left town to pro ceed on his embassy to Berlin. The Right Hon. Gentleman was accompanied by Mr. PROUDMAN, the King's Messenger. NoRTIIERN EKPEDITION.-1 - 11 addition to an Assistant-Surgeon to each of the vessels destined to - explore the Arctic regions, the Lords of the Admiralty have judged it proper that a Surgeon shall he attached to each of the principal ships, and have given directions to the Victualling Boat d to seleCt from the list of Naval Surgeons txvo in telligent Officers for this service, with orders to repair on board without a moment's delay. The Board has in consequence appointed Mr. JonN DUKE Surgeon of the Dorothea,-Captain BucuAN ; and Mr. JOHN EnwARDs to the Isabella, Captain Roes. The ships, it is expected, will drop down to the Nore to-morrow. GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERY.-Severai of our Cotempoi - aries, in detailing the feats of the Es qnimanx, now on board the Isabelle, one of the ships bound to explore Davis's Straits, announce that this man " was brought to Leith about four years ago by a South Sea whaler !!!" This is wonderful information, as the vessel must have passed through Bhering's Straits, deciding the dispured point of.a communication between the Continents of Asia and America, and rendering the present expedition to the North Pole entirely useless. Sir HumPIIIIY DAvY has - ,repeated the Experi ments on Muriaric Acid Gas, which have lately been' made by Dr. A. URE, Of Glasgow, and Dr. MURRAY, of Edinburgh, and has found that the water which these Chemists obtained was merely an accidental product. He found that the oxide of lead, and the alkali in the flint glass; both fur nished the oxygen. A method of making doubly refracting prisms, perfectly achromatic, has been recewly invented by Dr. BREWSTER. One of the Officers of the Isabella has under taken to make a series of regular observations with the new Barometer, or Sympiesometer, invented by Mr. Ante, end several of the Officers have been furnished xvith queries, drawn up by diffe rent scientific individuals, with the view of direct ing their attention to the various phenomena which are likely to present themselves in the Po lar Regions. Dr. CLARK, and Mr. flouqgs,. of Cambridge, have analysed a new 'mineral from Sweden, to which they have given the name of Berzelite, in honour of the illustrious Chemist, Baron I.3eRZE- Lius, of the City of Stockholm., BATH ARRIVAL°, -Aram 10.—L3ily Hale, Lent.- General Sir Charles and'Lady Colville, Sir R. and Lady ; Ad miral Sir .1. Collin; Major. General Head, Lieut.-General and Mrs. Nelson, Lieut.-General Orr, Col. llucl,laud, &c. PRIVATE AND AITTIMNTIC CORRESPONDENCS. PARIS, APRIL 6 —The French Pavers 5 , 814 given you an account of the Sittings in the Ch 3l/1' her of Deputies ofFriday last, in whicb 111 " tb LELE, faithful to his object of Overturning.', Government, professed the most absurd princjelel' It is not that M. V. is a nrld fool like M. O f" BERRY, a furious fellow like M. Lanouttooo44ll' or an ass like AL PIET ; hut M. de V. is " e man, and he systematically advarces Prin ci r t the most contrary to every s pecks of Govern . " 4ll : His favourite idea is, to re-eatablish the cial Assemblies, and to give to Municipal,A lo c city power to r:sist Royal Ant hority. 1 111° what lie wisl ti to substitute for THE CITABTI't 1. awl by which means he hopes to re-estad isb.th e regime anterior to 1789. He profits by evoY casion to bring his doctrines forward. o i M. de VILLELE attacked with much lor i n f the Minister of Police : he complained silence of "Government on the affair of L'Y a ii °9 ; and, by a rapid ,Transition, passed to the 5 7 4 Service Money confided to the Yinister 11(3. 1 lie maintained that it did m o r e h a rm than V° and that it ought to be withheld. M. lamstiE replied with - his usual -e1 64 1 0 e 1l but I do not think his arguments were 11410 : I did nut refute with energy eno,igh the (liatd)4o M. de VILLELE against the centralization Administrative Powers. This question is wTortance in France. Equality of rights iS A fundamental principle of th e Charter, tll most certainly the point which most ein iner ,, interests the immense majority of the Fi: el ' cb i o , Now this Equality of Rights cannot he s ' l° 4, tained without an Administration that is st r°' l ;4 and independent of the spirit of loCalitieg, pt that exercises its influence over the whole c %tC o f of the Kingdom. I will a dd th a t the sY stel" ti , M. de V. is only a petition in favour of hi s which, if revived, would render it all Pc' ve t i. F tt and enable it to destroy the Charter, and 6"-9 ,0 lace an Aristocratic Governr n tote in its enl p ; 0 Now, if you consider the natur a l inclinati" 9 . t yi French Nubility to oppose t h e R o y a l A"t" r p a you will readily perceive that to adopt would be to put the King in leading-strings' pie j t ( M. LAISIVE very ably s he ave d the inif" .°P g of sayirg that the Minister of Police glit th is to have any secret funds, he replied by th e 61. ' 1 0 menial?' ad hominem. " You ask," said he, -01 is the utility of the secret funds ;--T he Y serve if defeat the plans of Secret Societies." In fact:l is known that M. d e IS VILLEL and the pe rs° %4,' his party are all members of these secret 5 0ele c It would have been difficult for M. de C l ' ig i l• be silent on the occasion, He spoke, t' °ll : ls e; great dignity . and calmness ; he co mpl“ e4 . o 4 ' fuzed that part of M. de V.'s disconrse reaPect-00 secret service money. On the affair of U P 0 , the Noble Pees• had the art of eluding the lie ments Of his adversary ; he avoided treating 4a) basis of the question, but he insinuated, -01,, much address, that Messrs. C A roJEL, " 1"3 3 bef DE FARGUES, and Company, might , if o at thought themselves Taltunniated, a c rna against the parties. Indeed, it is rell ; ''' bicte t est these gentlemen let the heaviest a ccusat il-15 upon their shoulders, without daring 10 kave t i c e• course to the only means of procuring ju :prai Be this as it may, I am neverdicies fi""o ce opinion, that the Ministers might 1° . 1 ; . 01 m comunicated what they know at the '' 11.31 De/ Lyons ; 'for however they may love Pe ace ' oP will never succeed in concealing the truth : s° ere , or later it will birst forth in thunder, an d (1), 0 0 fore the sooner the better. Consequ eil l, this point I am perfectly of the opinion of -;%''ll \TILLELE, not from the same moti ves ' i f). knows where the guilt lies ; but he fas °cigs iied Ministers date not attack it in its 14 " ircei consequently he defies them. The property tax papers'were b ' jv '- Lincoln on Thursday. 4 41 ' Nv TO, SUICIDE.-Abollt tIVO o'clock yeste" - ng, a younp, woman passed hastily "" in - street, Strand, to the river side. S" pc by the watchman who is statio ned it ) " e l()% Sleet, and another stationed sit the? e°" l- 1 1. °.• gateway in Surrey-street, who were W ytinr Chf .6 6l gether. The unfortunate woman 104";‘,1,.efr the river, precipitated herself into the stir` 011: watchmen ran to her assistance ; and a ‘" te vv i e l ift'f wh o wng as paasi at the time in his boat, cil° - ,10 11 the spot, being at first attracted by l ip ';ejpo; and seeing her struggling in the IN 4 s:: l ( t i t b e lia u however, arrived too life—she sunk, has not since been found. ,1 BIRTH• On the 9th inst. at Lowcsby-hall Leics ters hire, th e Lt of Sir Frederick Gustavus Fowlie, Batt. of a su n. Of DIED. On Wednesday last, i il (;cope-street,l-lanover srPla,?1,110; Riebard Garcon , Bart. Uncle to the 'Marchioness of 13 1;„, to ham, and many years Representative in Parliamen t City of Winchester. l I,ONDON: Printril by .1. B7T CARSAIRS, of No• 29' Si, ...._--- "12("I'str''''t. Queen-s.piare; and published 1 )1 0 Se SCRIPPS, of No. 7, Suoth M o l to n-street, at 11100,01 Office, No. 112. Strand ; where Advertisements, Letteis, &c. (post-paid) must be addressed. TO CORRESPONDENTS.' TIM SECOND EPISTLE to the EDINBURGH REVIEWERS OD . Monday. THEATRICAL REGISTER. Performed Last Night. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.—The Follies of a Day. Count Altuavira, Mr. Rae; Susan, Mrs. Davison. After which, The Falls of Clyde. To which was added, The Sleeping Draught. THEATRE ROYAL, CovEsT-GARDEN.—Fazio: Giraldi Fazio, Mr. C. Ketuhle; Llianca, Miss O'Neill. After which, The Libertine. MAILS. ARitivED-2 Dublin, I Guernsey and Jersey, I Holland, 1 Uottenburgh, 3 Lisbon I France, 1 klautburgli. Dud-2 Waterford. PRICE 01 TA'S DAY AT T Bank stock ....2841 28.5 3 per Cent. Ited 7 914a a per Ct. Cons.— 80i 80 7qi 4 per Cents. 5 per Cent. N. Ann. 10; if 107 Bank Long Ann. 20 4 7-10t6s F STOCKS Eby F. tic 'mot. India Stock 2334 2391 India Bonds, 96s 90s. gas. pr. Ex. Bills, 2d, 16s. I9s. 17s. pr. Ditto, 24d Culls. for May...Boiii 80hf/ HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning, 35 minutes after i. I Evening, 57 minutes after G. THE SUN. SOLEM (Ole DICERE FALSUM AUDEAT ? LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 1 1818.